“The Mona Lisa Keeper” is the sequel to a long investigative series by Enzo Macleod. A character born under the pen of Peter May. One of the best investigators in Scotland who leaves to settle in France to marry the love of his life who unfortunately will die at the birth of his daughter. Following a bet, Enzo is now trying to solve unclassified cases in France.
While retired, Enzo is called in to try to solve a –new business in the south-west of France. A famous art critic has been found dead in a house not far from a small park where the remains of a Luftwaffe officer were recently exhumed. Enzo will discover that there is a link between these two murders despite the 80 years that separate them. This link is the Mona Lisa.
To write this novel, Peter May documented extensively on Mona Lisa, the occupation and evacuation of the works of the Louvre during the Second World War to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Nazis or being destroyed. by bombings.
– Rouergue
“The Guardian of Mona Lisa” is available from Rouergue editions.